Best art prize goes to Tessa Farmer’s gruesome tribute to Iain Banks’s debut novel, with other gongs for Ann Leckie, Ruth EJ Booth and Edward James
Iain Banks’s gruesome Wasp Factory, with which his psychotic teenager Frank lures countless insects to their doom, has been brought to life in an award-winning sculpture by Tessa Farmer.
From electrocution to crushing, drowning in urine to burning alive, the narrator of the late Scottish writer’s debut novel delights in detailing the many different ways wasps can die when they enter his Wasp Factory. Now Farmer’s recreation of Banks’s torture device has won the British Science Fiction award for best art, taking the prize this weekend ahead of a host of other artists. “I’m astonished,” Farmer told the Guardian. “I wasn’t expecting it at all.”
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